Building-molding



(No Model.) 2 Sheets Sheet 1. A M BEINKE BUILDING MOLDING.

Patented Apr. 9, 1895.

(No Model.) 2 SheetsShe et 2. A. M. BEINKE.

BUILDING MOLDING.

$10 537,379. Patented Apr. 9, 1895.

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ATENT AUGUST M. BEINKE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BUILDING-MOLDING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 537,379, dated April 9 1 895. Application filed December 8, 1894:- Serial No. 531,272. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST M. BEINKE, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Building-Moldings and Methods of Applying the Same, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improved molding for use in the finish of buildings, and the method of applying the molding, and my invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims.

Figure I is a detail view illustrating my invention as applied to a molding for hanging picture frames in a room. Fig. II is a section of one of the joint pieces, the section being taken on line II-II, Fig. I. Fig. III is a section taken on line III III, Fig. I. Fig. IV is a detail view on a smaller scale'looking at the inner face of the molding before the plaster or cement is applied. Fig. V is a perspective view of one of the joint pieces. Fig. VI shows my invention applied to a window or door molding, having rounded corner capsor pieces. Fig. VII is a similar view with square caps or pieces. Fig. VIII is a section taken on line VIII-VIII, Fig. VI. Fig. IX is a detail view illustrating my invention applied as a foot or mop board molding. Fig. X is an inside View of one of the corner caps or pieces shown in Fig. VI. Fig. XI is a section taken on line XIXI, Fig. VI. Fig. XII is a detail edge view of the molding shown in Fig. VI. Fig. XIII is an inside view of one of the corner caps or pieces shown in Fig. VII. Fig. XIV is an edge view of the same.

Referring to the drawings: 1 represents the usual lath, and 2 the usual plaster applied to the walls of a building.

3 represents a molding which may be applied in different ways in a room, either for suspending the picture frames as shown in Fig. I, or as a window or door frame or border, as shown in Figs. VI, VII and VIII, or as a foot or mop board molding or finish as shown in Fig. IX. This molding in all of its forms is provided with lugs or projections 4:, bent alternately in opposite directions, and made by forming slits in the edges of the molding and bending the metal between the slits outwardly and inwardly, as shown clearly in Figs. IV and VI. The molding thus formed-is filled with plaster or cement such as is used for covering the lath, and while the plaster on the lath, as Well as that which fills the molding, is still green and wet, the molding is forced into place, the prongs 4: entering the plaster on the wall, and the plaster in the molding coming up against the plaster on the wall, so as to adhere thereto as the plaster dries out.

The molding is made in suitable lengths, and at the joint between the lengths or sections of molding I apply a joint piece 5, such as is shown in Figs. II, III and V. This joint piece has an outer bead fitting the edges of the sections by being made to conform thereto, and it has sides 6 formingapocket 7, in which plaster is placed, and while this plaster and the plaster on the wall is still green, thejoint piece is forced into position where it will be held when the plaster dries.

If in forcing the molding into position the retaining lips 4 deface or form cavities in the outer surface of the plaster, these places are pointed up after the molding is applied.

8 represents lips projecting upwardly from the upper face of the molding, and which are formed by making slits in. the molding and bending the part between the slits upwardly, and the purpose of these lips is to form hooks to receive the picture frame cords or wires.

When the invention is applied to door or window moldings or borders, it is made in the same Way and applied in the same way and as in picture frame moldings, may be of any desired configuration; and corner caps 9,

either of triangular form as shown in Figs.

VI, X and XII, or of square form as shown in Figs. VII, XI, XIII and XIV, or of any other shape may be employed, these caps being filled with plaster and forced into position while the plaster is green.

This description of how the molding is made, filled, and applied, makes my method clear.

A molding thus made and applied is inexpensive, can be quickly applied, and when in position will be firm and solid.

I claim as my invention- 1. The improved method of forming and placing building molding, consisting in form- ICO ing the molding with retaining prongs or points, then filling the molding with plaster, and then applying the molding to the wall while the plaster on the wall and in the molding is still green, by forcing the prongs in the molding into the plaster on the wall, so that the plaster in the molding comes in contact with the plaster on the wall, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of a molding 3, a plaster filling within the molding, and retaining prongs 4 on the molding, substantially as set forth. 

